Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [be] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , but normally she does n't watch erm six o'clock news because she 's cooking at six o'clock or seven o'clock . |
| 2 | He was embarrassed , she knew , because she was sitting at old Eddy Moulton 's desk , upon the top of which poor old Eddy had so recently laid down his head and died . |
| 3 | She agreed to one glass of the port , not because she was feeling at all drunk but because she knew that she ought to be . |
| 4 | Tubifex is the worm that most fishkeepers are familiar with because they are sold at many tropical fish outlets . |
| 5 | Van den Boogaard argued that in entering Anglo-Norman , fabliaux underwent a radical transformation because they were aimed at such an isolated audience ; an audience isolated from the full French literary frame of reference that a truly French audience would have had . |
| 6 | Because it is written at first-year undergraduate level , many students could profit from this volume . |
| 7 | If it sounds like the opening words of an episode of Star Trek , that 's because it 's aimed at attracting schoolchildren to the world of science . |
| 8 | They should have been resolved in December nineteen ninety two because it was decided at that summit that there would be eighteen extra seats for er the then er united Germany . |